Myanmar emerging as a major hub for smuggling pangolins to China
Jan 29, 2016, 9:56 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaIllegal pangolin trade in Myanmar is flourishing, according to a recent study published in Global…Jokowi asked to push indigenous rights through reluctant parliament
Jan 29, 2016, 5:02 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaOn Tuesday, a proposed bill on the rights of indigenous peoples was excluded from Indonesia’s 2016…Vines may be bad news for forest carbon storage
Jan 28, 2016, 8:37 pm By (Published by Morgan Erickson-Davis)A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that vines…U.S. national parks set an attendance record last year
Jan 28, 2016, 4:15 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaThe National Park Service announced yesterday that 305 million people visited the United States’…Peru issues its first sentence against species traffickers, setting a precedent
Jan 28, 2016, 3:10 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.monga[caption id="attachment_176367" align="aligncenter" width="619"] The captured ocelot. Photo courtesy…Newly discovered chameleon sheds light on Tanzania biodiversity
Jan 28, 2016, 2:19 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaThe Wildlife Conservation Society announced yesterday that a team of scientists has discovered a new…Controversial culling of bison herd in Yellowstone National Park now the subject of First Amendment battle
Jan 28, 2016, 11:36 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaYellowstone National Park’s annual culling of the last wild herd of bison, or buffalo, in the…What’s preventing palm oil investors from going green?
Jan 28, 2016, 12:56 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaPart two in a five-part series on the attitudes of palm oil financiers towards company…Does sustainable forest management actually protect forests?
Jan 27, 2016, 7:04 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaThe Rio Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992, brought the principles of sustainable…Tropical forest protected areas might be working better than you think
Jan 27, 2016, 2:53 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaContrary to reports of declining biodiversity in protected tropical forests, the authors of an…‘Sounds like Adele’: Melodious song leads to discovery of new bird species in India
Jan 27, 2016, 9:15 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaFor a long time, birders called it the plain-backed thrush (Zoothera mollissima). But in 2009,…Most ‘frontiers of plantation expansion’ are losing far more trees to deforestation than harvesting
Jan 26, 2016, 4:50 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaNearly all of the recent tree cover loss in several “frontiers of plantation expansion” is…Over-hunting’s surprising connection to global warming
Jan 26, 2016, 2:08 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaWe know that deforestation threats like timber extraction and wildfires are bad for the stability of…Study answers question: how do boa constrictors kill their prey?
Jan 26, 2016, 12:38 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaHollywood and Youtube have shown us plenty of images of constrictor snakes killing their prey. But…Sri Lanka crushes and destroys over 350 ivory tusks
Jan 26, 2016, 9:11 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaIn May 2012, customs authorities at the Port of Colombo in Sri Lanka seized a shipment of 359…Do palm oil financiers care about sustainability?
Jan 26, 2016, 2:30 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaPart one in a five-part series on the attitudes of palm oil financiers toward sustainability.…Over 40 years, half of China’s land vertebrates disappear
Jan 25, 2016, 2:33 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.monga[dropcap]F[/dropcap]rom 1970 to 2010, the world’s populations of mammals, reptiles, amphibians,…The Paris climate talks ended in elation — now the real work begins, say Faith leaders
Jan 25, 2016, 2:07 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.monga[caption id="attachment_175934" align="alignnone" width="1200"] Statue at the entrance to Le Bourget…Special issue of Biotropica makes the case for protecting South America’s white-sand forests
Jan 25, 2016, 12:32 pm By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaPublished this month, a special issue of Biotropica, the journal of the Association for Tropical…Man selling monkey heads on eBay sentenced, supplier in Indonesia arrested
Jan 25, 2016, 6:44 am By <a class="author-link" href="http://news.mongaOn January 11, a 63 year-old illegal wildlife trader, George Bush of London, U.K., was sentenced to…
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